| Tuerkayana | |
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| Tuerkayana rotundum | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Brachyura |
| Family: | Gecarcinidae |
| Genus: | Tuerkayana |
| Type species | |
| Tuerkayana rotundum (Quay & Gaimard, 1824)
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Tuerkayana is a genus of large land crabs. It was created from two members of the genus Cardisoma and two members of Discoplax in late 2018 after a re-examination of the taxonomy of the family Gecarcinidae. Said re-examination also resulted in the creation of the new family Leptograpsodidae for the genus Leptograpsodes.[1]
Species[edit]
The genus Tuerkayana comprises these four species:[1]
- Tuerkayana celeste (Ng & Guinot, 2001) (formerly Discoplax)
- Tuerkayana hirtipes (Dana, 1851) (formerly Cardisoma)
- Tuerkayana magnum (Ng & Shih, 2015) (formerly Discoplax)
- Tuerkayana rotundum (Quay & Gaimard, 1824) (formerly Cardisoma)
References[edit]
- ^ a b Guinot, Danièle; Ng, Ngan Kee; Rodríguez Moreno, Paula A. (21 December 2018). "Review of grapsoid families for the establishment of a new family for Leptograpsodes Montgomery, 1931, and a new genus of Gecarcinidae H. Milne Edwards, 1837 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Grapsoidea MacLeay, 1838)" (PDF). Zoosystema. 40 (sp1): 547–604. doi:10.5252/zoosystema2018v40a26. S2CID 92671389. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 February 2019.
External links[edit]
Media related to Tuerkayana at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to Tuerkayana at Wikispecies
